Re: Can't boot off of new SATA drive


Ah, missed that (or focused on the other stuff). That is because the
boot.ini file used by the Windows loader still lists the IDE drive as
the boot device. The boot.ini file uses physical parameters to describe
the boot drive (of where to find the rest of the OS that the loader
needs to find). A SATA drive would have completely different physical
parameters to describe in boot.ini how the loader (the boot sector in
the OS' partition) would find that drive. You probably something like
the following in boot.ini (which now a copy resides on the SATA drive,
too):

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional"

I have to re-read this post as I'm in a hurry, but real quick
quesiton...should I just edit the boot.ini file or repair a Win XP
install?

Also, I do NOT have a floppy drive installed (although I have one in my
basement...but I threw away my floppy disks).

Eddie

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